Julian Assange

Information may want to be free, but sometimes it needs a little help. Genius provocateur behind Wikileaks, hard at work providing startling glimpse of near future, where confidential and classified documents are routinely made available to the general public. Governments and corporations with dirty laundry should be afraid, very afraid.

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Shares of Julius Baer stock nosed north sharply yesterday after settlement talks with U.S. officials caused them to announced that the bank has set aside $350 million to pay potential fines related to an ongoing criminal investigation into tax practices.

I know: it sounds confusing. Why would shares soar – to an all time high – over the read »

UPDATE (1:30 PM ET): Sepp Blatter has been reelected by the FIFA World Congress as President

When word came that officials with FIFA were being arrested in Zurich, Switzerland over corruption charges, those that have been paying attention to the soccer sanctioning body were far from surprised. After all, there read »

Wikileaks today published the entirety of the content leaked by the hackers who attacked Sony Pictures Entertainment last year, setting up a searchable archive containing 30,000 documents from the company and 170,000 emails between top executives and actors.

The cyberattack, which the U.S. government concluded was orchestrated by the read »

It has finally happened. A powerful group of leaders in international finance, the Group of Thirty, (G30) called last week for far-reaching banking reforms to restore public trust. It opened the door to dismissal if necessary of top executives in the banking sector, new approaches to hiring and stronger roles by boards of directors “to ensure read »

Anything can be marketed – especially political candidates. As the political season starts ramping up, we are witnessing the beginning of what is sure to be a fast-paced, rapid-fire, marketing competition play out. Day-by-day, almost any candidate can be on top of the leader board with polling numbers shifting drastically. Imagine marketing a read »

When Dan Price announced that he was raising the minimum salary in his company to $70,000, it made a lot of headlines. The story of the founder and CEO of the Seattle-based credit card processor Gravity Payments drastically cutting his own salary in order to raise the standard of living of even his lowest paid employees was written about just read »

We’re still incredibly far away from the sixth season of Game of Thrones, but given that it’s currently starting to film, news about what comes next is beginning to leak. And today, there’s a bit of fantastic news from set that the show has brought on Deadwood alumni Ian McShane to take on an unspecified read »

Warner Bros./New Line/Time Warner Inc.’s new Vacation sequel/reboot was the only wide release daring to debut alongside Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. The film opened on Wednesday with $3.8 million and earned another $2.5m on Thursday. As such, its $14.8m weekend brings its cume to $21.172m thus far. read »

Chinese corporations continue to grow bigger, according to this year’s list of Fortune Global 500 companies.

Ninety eight companies made it to the list, up from 92 last year, and 34 seven years ago; three companies continued to be in the top ten rank, beating the US and Japan—Sinopec Group (NYSE:SHI), China National read »

The content metrics you track should be influenced by your company goals. Simply put, you can’t half-ass this — many companies publish a handful of articles and give up when they don’t see a ton of leads flying through the door. read »

As hospital operators begin to report second period earnings — the sixth consecutive quarter of new revenue from once uninsured patients — the number and size of unpaid medical bills continues to fall thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The health law last year began to provide subsidized private health insurance coverage on public exchanges and read »